Lichtblick-Kino

One house, ten patients, forty employees and death. In the Hospice of Central Switzerland, exceptional situations meet everyday life, spirituality meets rationality and individualism meets institutional mechanisms. The film gently encounters an uncomplicated and intimate approach to dying.

Naku Ikinyu is an experimental and participatory ethnographic film essay that engages with Indigenous Sapara women’s local pursuits of ecological wellbeing and their spiritual foundation that concedes human and non-human beings are animated. By combining voiceover, sensory and participatory methods, the researcher attempts to introduce collective and personal sensorial experiences through a collaborative approach that reflects on trans-corporeality and intersectionality while simultaneously presenting her collaborators’ embodied practices.